What cultural representations of home appear in today’s emergent children’s literature? In what way are they linked to emotions such as safety and fear? To answer this question, the proposed study will use a corpus selected among children’s intercultural narratives and indigenous picture books from Australia and New Caledonia. This chapter examines cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics theories with a focus on semantics and discourse analysis in French and English. The innovative articulation of two methodologies—Anna Wierzbicka’s “Natural Semantic Metalanguage” (NSM) (1996), developed by Bert Peeters (1994) regarding the French language, and Olga Galatanu’s “Semantics of Argumentative Possibilities” (SAP/SPA) (2018)—offers a unique approach contributing to new developments in the study of languages, cross-cultural communications, and Intangible Heritage. This hybrid methodology will be applied to the case study of ‘home’ and its counterpart in French: chez soi. The semantic and discursive mechanisms involved in the transmission of such cultural values will be illustrated by significant examples chosen from emergent children’s literature, a medium which lends itself particularly well to a comparative analysis of the discursive practices of different cultures and languages. The analysis of these representations will shed light on the different roles played by the concepts of home and fear in children’s books and more generally in Heritage narratives and identity discourses.